Featured in Architecture & Design

Monal Daxini presents a blueprint for streaming data architectures and a review of desirable features of a streaming engine. He also talks about streaming application patterns and anti-patterns, and use cases and concrete examples using Apache Flink.

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Joy Gao talks about how database streaming is essential to WePay's infrastructure and the many functions that database streaming serves. She provides information on how the database streaming infrastructure was created & managed so that others can leverage their work to develop their own database streaming solutions. She goes over challenges faced with streaming peer-to-peer distributed databases.

Aurynn Shaw on Enabling a Sustainable DevOps Culture

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Aurynn Shaw about how DevOps, Microservices and other “technical” approaches are in fact cultural constraints on technical ideas and what’s needed to make the culture sustainable.

Key Takeaways

Running and testing a program on the developer desktop is not running the program

You must rethink the approach to building the software based on the way it will be deployed

DevOps isn’t about the tooling – it is about the context in which we find ourselves

Sustainable DevOps is about understanding the system that makes up the organisation ecosystem and what needs to change to enable the new ways of working

Design the system to help prevent dangerous actions rather than laying blame when something goes wrong

As a technologist you want to say “yes” – fix the systems around you that force you to say “no”

When examining the system we will discover that we’ve done things that we’re not happy about and must accept that they happened without apportioning blame

24:26 If you don’t have a foundation of trust with a culture of “yes” then you DevOps will not solve any of your organisation problems

24:51 As a technologist you want to say “yes” – fix the systems around you that force you to say “no”

25:12 Find all of the places in the value stream which add pressure to say “no” and slowly modify them to allow the actions we do want, then modify them even further to prevent the actions we don’t want

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